On Jun 1, 1:02 am, "William Stein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Gary Furnish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The things in misc.functional are covered up by other imports in
> > general. They only are usable if you change the import order in
> > all.py in major ways, and no other code in Sage uses them. In fact
> > there is code in there that is not doctested that doesn't even work.
> > In general I agree with you, but in this specific case I believe this
> > is 100% safe.
>
> Yes, misc.functional is a very very old "dumping ground" file, where I put
> stuff that I wanted to call with functional notation (instead of
> object-oriented
> method notation). So I'm not surprised a lot of it is not irrelevant and
> not even imported to sage.all.
Ok, so I am concluding the same thing as William and would be more
specific about depreciation procedures only for functions imported per
default. Anything that is broken and has been broken for a while
should just be removed.
Thoughts?
> William
Cheers,
Michael
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